Mapping the future of southern pine management in a changing world.

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  High school students participating in the University of Florida's Science Quest summer camp measure trees and calculate the amount of carbon stored in trees as part of the Project Learning Tree/PINEMAP Secondary Module activity "Counting the Carbon." Photo courtesy of Martha Monroe.

  
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  Maxwell Wightman, PINEMAP graduate student, shows participants how to use a homemade clinometer to measure tree height. Photo courtesy of Jessica Ireland.

  
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  Weather station at the Tier III throughfall exclusion x fertilization site in Taylor County, Florida. Photo courtesy of Jessica Ireland.

  
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  PINEMAP team members pose for a photo during the 2013 annual meeting field tour at the Tier III throughfall exclusion x fertilization site in Taliaferro County, GA.

  
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  Virginia Tech M.S. student Brett Heim uses a LI-COR 6200 to measure soil respiration underneath a throughfall exclusion structure at the Virginia Tier III site. Photo courtesy of John Seiler.

  
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  Throughfall exclusion structures at Tier III site in Buckingham County, Virginia. Photo courtesy of Andy Laviner.

  
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  The green shaded area in this map depicts the native range of loblolly pine; blue tags show collaborating institutions and yellow circles show locations of manipulative field experiments to examine the interaction of soil nutrient and water availability. Remote sensing image courtesy Google Earth; range map courtesy USDA Forest Service.

  

PINEMAP Collaborators

Universities

University of Florida | Alcorn State University | University of Georgia | Auburn University | Mississippi State University | North Carolina A & T University | North Carolina State University |
Oklahoma State University | Texas A & M University | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Virginia State University

University-Corporate-Governmental Research Cooperatives

Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program | Cooperative Tree Improvement Program | Forest Biology Research Cooperative | Forest Modeling Research Cooperative |
Forest Productivity Cooperative | Plantation Management Research Cooperative | Southern Forest Resource Assessment Consortium | Western Gulf Forest Tree Improvement Program

Other

U.S. Forest Service | Southern Regional Extension Forestry | Southeast Climate Consortium | Additional Supporters

The Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agricultural Project funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Award #2011-68002-30185.

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• May 09, 2026
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